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They might not mean to make you blush, but they will. In their debut collection of essays, Awkward Moments with Men, Shannon Miller and Megan Byrd create an uninhibited and earnest portrait of what it is to love and lust as young women stammering through perils of the modern world. Startlingly smart and vulnerable, the blonde and the brunette, the Canadian and the American, bear more than their fair share of snark and indignity as they tell stories of everything from going on a blind date in Bali to discovering a beloved relative’s treasure trove of ethnic internet pornography.

Belonging in the hapless, hilarious, if not slightly sordid family of wordsmiths, Awkward Moments with Men introduces two strikingly original and endearing voices into the literary landscape. May you laugh, commiserate, and start a fund to help them pay for all therapy they’re going to need once their parents read this.

Q&A WITH THE AUTHORS

Would you recommend this book to children?
Of course! Children love books. They also love those pointy, metal tines that forks have and uncovered light-sockets.

Did you both really write this thing, or was it like Pussycat Dolls where one of you did all the work and the other gyrated and lip-synched in the background?
We both really wrote this thing. Of course whenever we weren t tippy-typing away on our Macbooks we spent the vast majority of our leisure time gyrating and lip-synching which naturally, we also did together. After all, you can t spell Pussycat Dolls without us.

Have you been sued yet?
Not yet, but we’d welcome the opportunity to get in touch with our ex-boyfriends.

If this book is turned into an HBO TV series - because, obviously, it should be - who would play you?
We think about this all the time, and we are SO glad you asked. Cate Blanchett would be cast as Megan because she s played both Bob Dylan and Queen Elizabeth. The character of Megan is pretty much a perfect combination of both. The role of Shannon would be played by Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. Partly, because they have the same color hair as her, but mostly because she likes twins.

On a scale of 1-10, how embarrassed are your future children going to be when they read this?
Probably a hard 8, but they’ll get beat up for tons of other reasons too. The awkward gene is hereditary, so this book will probably be the least of their worries.

Last but not least: Why should anyone spend 15 of their very good dollars purchasing this book?                                        Because unlike the bag full of McRibs you planned to spend the money on, Awkward Moments With Men will not contribute to the rise of diabetes.

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